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Read articles written by expert teachers and English language professionals about a wide range of current English language teaching topics and issues. All of our articles feature ideas and suggestions about how you can develop your teaching and bring new ideas into your English language classroom.
Grammatical syllabus
A grammatical syllabus is based on the structures of a language. It can be compared to other types of syllabi based around tasks, vocabulary, functions or topics.
Group dynamics
Group dynamics refer to the relationships between learners in a group and the impact that this has on the way they work.
Group work
Group work is when the learners work together on a task or activity in groups.
Guided discovery
Guided discovery, also known as an inductive approach, is a technique where a teacher provides examples of a language item and helps the learners to find the rules themselves.
Guided writing
Guided writing involves a teacher working with a group of learners on a writing task.
Higher-order questions
Higher-order questions require answers that go beyond simple information and as such both the language and thinking behind them is more complex.
Holistic approach
A holistic approach to language sees it as a whole, which is not divisible in a meaningful way for teaching.
Homonym
A homonym is a word that has the same sound or spelling as another but a different meaning.
Homophone
A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but different meaning and spelling.
Horseshoe layout
A horseshoe layout is a way of organizing learners’ seats in a class in the form of a horseshoe.